Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 83
Let me go to the wars, and lose an arm or a leg, that would be some change; I cannot bear it.
Who acts: you, me, that, I · What happens: let, go, lose, be, not bear · To what, where: me, wars, arm, change, gout
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, that, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wars | det |
| 6 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lose | cc |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 arm | det |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 leg | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 leg | det |
| 14 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arm | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 change | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 change | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 change | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 change | cop |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 change | det |
| 20 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arm | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bear | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bear | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 bear | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 bear | advmod |
| 25 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bear | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | the wars | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | infinitive | you not said here | a arm or a leg and some change | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | would | that | some change | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not bear | can | I | gout | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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